No one likes to be ordinary. And the good news is, most of us aren't.
As the country becomes more diverse, the proportion of people who share the most common demographic characteristics is shrinking.
In Western Australia, the suburb where you are most likely to meet the "ordinary" Australian is Boyup Brook, where three of the population of 911 people have at least 10 of the typical traits.
But in most suburbs and towns across Western Australia, zero Australians tick all the boxes for "ordinary".
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Demography and population researcher Dr Amanda Davies said Western Australia was more likely to have people who had migrated from England to work in the manufacturing industries in the post-war period and the 1970s.
"That has meant the population is more English than anywhere else in the country, in terms of its ancestry, and therefore speaks English at home more," she said.
"Also [they have] a propensity to prefer a certain type of housing over another, so the things link together."
Australia's most and least 'ordinary' suburbs
Social researcher and writer, and self-described "census nerd", Dr Rebecca Huntley said the term "ordinary Australian" was constantly invoked.
"When you spend time with people asking them to define what that is … people push back. They say: 'What is the average Australian?' They question what that is," she said.
"Even though we have lots of different kinds of people trying to force us into imagining there's one position on anything or one reasonable centre view on anything, there often isn't.
"It obscures some of the complexities about what people feel about certain issues."
The "ordinary" and the "extraordinary"
Dianella makeup artist Brie Treasure-Hilder said she was surprised she met all the criteria for "ordinary" — when she pictured a quintessential Australian she didn't picture herself.
"For me it's probably a pair of thongs, and stubby shorts, and a can of beer in their hand, which isn't me at all," she said.
"It is interesting, I don't feel like we live an average life."
Fatuma Mohamed, 40, ticks none of the "ordinary" boxes, but said that didn't affect how Australian she felt.
Ms Mohamed, who migrated to the country 17 years ago from Somalia as a refugee, said four of her six children were born in this country.
"Maybe everyone, they have different backgrounds, same [as] me," she said.
"My kids they're saying they're Australian because they grew up here. They study [here].
"We are Australian, I feel Australian."
Teacher Jenny Findlay, 55, from the small southern coastal town of Denmark, fits the bill as an "ordinary" Australian on all but one category — income.
But she said she felt far from ordinary.
"I think I'm unusual being married. I think I'm unusual having a couple of kids," she said.
"Not that any of those things are bad.
"It's changed so much since I was a child too. Children I teach now, just in one generation, it's changed so significantly."
According to census data, Denmark's population of 2,637 included no people who ticked all the boxes as a typical Australian.
Mirrabooka was another WA suburb that recorded no "ordinary" Australians. Mirrabooka local Alfred Noti, 32, has six children and only ticks a few of the other "ordinary" Australian boxes.
He said defining "ordinary" was hard to do.
"That's kind of a tricky question," he said. "The thing is, Australia is a great place.
"It's not like only on one side, it's a diverse culture
Video by Alex Palmer and Inga Ting
